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Does anybody here use anything fancy or have a recommended way to synchronize KDE settings across different MX Linux installations (same version)? Some things would not work (like resolution) but other stuff like Kate configurations, terminal configurations, window behavior, etc. would be really nice to be able to sync.

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I have had success using MX Snapshot on my desktop and installing same to my laptop. Desktop has AMD Radeon graphics and laptop nVidia graphics. It presented no problems.
Of course it overwrites the target machine installation making it the same as the desktop. Therefore losing any customizations on the target machine

I dont use KDE... but I have a system with XFCE that could work for this in KDE too. I have an in-house Subversion (SVN) server which I use for version control on ALL my computers (3 live rigs, 5 test / special purpose VM rigs ). This server handles documents, code, websites etc.... but I ALSO use it to synchronize ALL of my scripts and some of my configurations - keeping most of my rigs running the same 'base' configurations. (and it does NOT have to be in-house either, I can update websites and other computers across the internet using this method. )

The COOL thing about using SVN to do this is that I can pick specific files in ANY folder and ANY tree, and then SVN does pretty much the rest, including keeping versioning as I go. (ie if I have to roll a file back, I can.. for as long a way back as I want! ) I have a script that runs on all computers etc 3 to 5 min and updates ( Commit or Update ) with my SVN server. (And you can choose how long you want between sync too.)

Once in a great while a file may get out or sync and need a little manual help, but really its quite painless and VERY simple to do.

I used to use FreeFileSynch to do this and it worked quite well too, requires no 'SVN Server', but also is a little harder to do partial folders / or pick / choose files. I personally think my svn method does it better.

Hi @Danathar

Some weeks ago, i accidentally stumbled over a github project called 'SaveDesktop'

https://github.com/vikdevelop/SaveDesktop

Hadn't had the time to test it with more than 2 add. Boxes and other DEs than XFCE thus far, but my first impression is - works as expected, even Distro-Agnostic!

HTH l0dr3

l0dr3 wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 7:10 am Hi @Danathar

Some weeks ago, i accidentally stumbled over a github project called 'SaveDesktop'

https://github.com/vikdevelop/SaveDesktop

Hadn't had the time to test it with more than 2 add. Boxes and other DEs than XFCE thus far, but my first impression is - works as expected, even Distro-Agnostic!

HTH l0dr3

thanks!